Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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Publisher
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"The seventeenth century has long been considered a "golden age" for Dutch art, fueled by the Dutch Republic's growth as an economic world power. Nourished by an innovative stock market and burgeoning global trade network, this vibrant economy not only provided artists with a rich context in which to make their art, but also directly influenced the art itself--in its subject matter, materials, meaning, and interpretation. The genre scenes and still...
28) Arts of Africa
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Series
Publisher
MFA Publications
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
The African art collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, offers a portal into the life and politics of a large and complex continent with a wealth of history and culture. The highlighted works in this volume have been selected to illuminate different societies and periods, and to offer an introduction to traditions within the wider field of African art. They are presented through the framework of their original contexts: refined bronze sculptures...
Author
Publisher
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Sometime in the fourth century BC, an unknown Egyptian master carved an exquisite portrait in dark-green stone. The statue that included this remarkably lifelike head of a priest, who was probably a citizen of ancient Memphis, may have been damaged when the Persians conquered Egypt in 343 B.C. before it was ritually buried in a temple complex dedicated to the worship of the sacred Apis bull .... After almost two millennia, the head was excavated...
37) Hippie chic
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Publisher
Available through ARTBOOK/D.A.P
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
The 1960s saw a revolution in fashion that was born of youth rebellion in the streets, and trickled up into the top fashion houses. Defying easy definition, hippie fashion expressed a personal style with clothing that went against everything about the previous generation's notion of matching suits or ladylike ensembles.